Collaborative team players, capable of working well with others but also autonomously with little direction

A strong interest in knowledge development, i.e., contributing to articles, experiential learning and a passion for capability building

Able to grasp and communicate complex ideas clearly

Who You'll Work With

You'll work in one of our North American offices as part of our Operations practice and our Purchasing and Supply Management group.

Purchasing and Supply Management is a rapidly growing service line that helps organizations build competitive advantage through the development of world-class purchasing and supply management capabilities. Sustainable impact is our focus and how we measure our success. We design strategic sourcing approaches to provide immediate impact but also believe that to ensure sustainability, a formal performance transformation program—that includes organizational and cultural changes—must be implemented.

What You'll Do

You will play a key part in driving process improvement, delivering successful business results, and developing broad based strategies for a diverse set of clients.

You will be both a thought leader and skilled practitioner, focused on helping our clients transform their purchasing and supply management organizations while simultaneously solving operational issues across the business enterprise. Often, this involves fundamentally changing the corporate organization and culture to embrace lasting change. McKinsey's teams work alongside our clients' senior management and top talent in aggressively pursuing operational improvement.

You are likely to define new organizational structures, roles and processes across global supply chain/supply management organizations by upgrading line and staff skills, changing the structure of reporting relationships, developing improved processes and procedures, and/or instituting a rigorous target-setting and performance-monitoring systems. You'll work with the client to realize immediate savings by building and executing sourcing a strategy for each major spending category and you'll rationalize operational assets and networks to optimize levels of effectiveness and efficiencies.

Danielle B.

Partner

Fope F.

Senior Associate

Fope helps lead a small team that works for McKinsey clients, helping them address business challenges and strategic questions. Though based in the NYC office, she travels frequently so she can be in-person with her clients.